| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Jul 31-Aug 2 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day (US) | Sony | £23.5m | £36.4m | 1 |
| 2 | The Odyssey (US) | Universal | £6.84m | £50.4m | 3 |
| 3 | Toy Story 5 (US) | Disney | £1.05m | £51.9m | 7 |
| 4 | Minions & Monsters (US) |
Universal | £777,000 | £14.4m | 5 |
| 5 | Moana (US) | Disney | £718,000 | £10.5m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
Spider-Man: Brand New Day posted the fourth-biggest three-day opening of all time at the UK-Ireland box office, with a huge £23.5m start.
The Sony title took an enormous £32,777 location average from 716 locations. Its three-day start is behind only 2019’s Avengers: Endgame (£31.4m), 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens (£24.2m) and 2011’s Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (£23.7m), and ahead of the likes of Avengers: Infinity War (£23.1m) and all James Bond titles, including 2021’s No Time To Die (£21m) and 2012’s Skyfall (£20.2m).
Including its opening on Wednesday (July 29), Brand New Day brought in £36.4m – the third-highest opening when including previews, behind only Endgame (£43.4m) and Spectre (£41.3m).
It has also set records for a Spider-Man film, beating the £19.5m three-day opening and £31.9m total opening of 2021’s No Way Home. It has passed the totals of six of the eight standalone Spider-Man films since 2000, behind only No Way Home (£97.3m) and 2019’s Far From Home (£37.4m), which it will pass today.
Brand New Day dethroned Universal’s The Odyssey after two sessions atop the chart. However, Christopher Nolan’s epic still posted a strong result, passing the £50m mark.
It fell 43% on its third weekend, with £6.8m bringing it to a £50.4m total. It has now passed the totals of nine of Nolan’s 12 previous features, behind only Oppenheimer (£59.8m), Dunkirk (£56.8m) and The Dark Knight Rises (£56.5m). It is now the third-biggest Imax release of all time in the territory, and the first film to cross £1m at Cineworld’s flagship Leicester Square venue.
Disney’s Toy Story 5 also crossed the £50m mark, and is now on its seventh week in cinemas. The Pixar animation added £1.05m with a 45% drop, and is up to £51.9m total, likely to finish as the third-highest-grossing of the franchise behind Toy Story 3 (£74.1m) and Toy Story 4 (£66.2m).
Minions & Monsters added £777,000 on its fifth weekend for Universal – a 43% drop that brought it to £14.4m total. It has overtaken animations including Kung Fu Panda 3 (£14.3m) and The Wild Robot (£14.1m), but is still at less than a third of the totals of most of the previous Minions/Despicable Me films.
Disney’s Moana held a top five spot on its fourth weekend, with a 48% drop to £718,000. The live-action title has crossed the £10m mark, with £10.5m total.
Takings for the top five titles soared 95% to £32.9m, in one of the biggest UK-Ireland box office weekends on record. The total is the first time the top five have passed a cumulative £20m this year, and is only 4% down on the £34.4m amount for the opening Barbenheimer weekend in July 2023.
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